Europe’s new UEFA Champions League season continues on October 1 and culminates with the final at Budapest’s Puskás Aréna, on May 30, 2026. Key fixtures include rampant Bayern Munich hosting Club Brugge -- with Harry Kane recently scoring 100th goal for Bundesliga heavyweights, the fastest anyone has reached landmark at single club in Europe’s top five leagues since 2000 -- Ajax travelling to Chelsea and Real Madrid hosting Juventus.
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Europe’s new UEFA Champions League season continues on October 1 and culminates with the final at Budapest’s Puskás Aréna, on May 30, 2026. Key fixtures include Arsenal hosting stern opposition in Atletico Madrid -- with Viktor Gyokeres leading the North London attack -- Jose Mourinho’s Benfica travelling to Newcastle United and Barcelona hosting Olympiacos.
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The U.S. is ramping up its campaign against Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, with around 10,000 troops supporting counternarcotics operations in the Caribbean.#Venezuela #Military #Map #Caribbean #CentralAmerica #LatinAmerica #Forces #Ships #Aircraft #Troops #Symbols

U.S. President Donald Trump plans to build a privately-funded triumphal arch, so-called “Arc de Trump”, marking the latest effort in his bid to remake Washington DC in his own style#Science #Technology #Architecture #WhiteHouse #ArcdeTrump #U.S. #USA #US #America # #PresidentDonaldTrump @DonaldTrump @Trump #WashingtonDCmap #ArcdeTriomphe #
ArlingtonNationalCemetery #MemorialCircle #U.S. #USA #US #America #’250thanniversary #POTOMAC #HarrisonDesign #ArlingtonMemorialBridge #LincolnMemorial #WhiteHouse #TheMall

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is set to enter La Santé prison in Paris, becoming the first French postwar leader – and the first former head of an EU country – to serve a jail sentence.#France #Crime #Justice #VIPwing #Cell #Panopticon #LaSanté #NicolasSarkozy @NicolasSarkozy #Prison #Jail #Parismap #Sentence #MuammarGaddafi #CarlostheJackal #JacquesMesrine #ManuelNoriega #AlfredDreyfus #DreyfusAffair #MauricePapon @MuammarGaddafi @CarlostheJackal @JacquesMesrine @ManuelNoriega @AlfredDreyfus #DreyfusAffair @MauricePapon

The UN has estimated that it will cost $70 billion to rebuild the Gaza Strip after the two year war with Israel. European and Arab nations, Canada and the U.S. have shown an interest in contributing.#Gaza #Israel #War #IsraelGazaWar #GazaReconstruction #peace #peacedeal #DonaldTrump #PresidentTrump #UnitedNations #UN @UN #housing #power #water #education #agriculture #food #starvation #malnutrition #famine #aid #blockade #warcrimes #politics

The 80th National Basketball Association season launches with the Oklahoma City Thunder as reigning champions after beating the Indiana Pacers in the 2025 NBA Finals -- extending a remarkable streak of equivalence across the league, with seven different title holders since 2019.#Basketball #NBA #Play-off #Eastern #Western #conference #AtlantaHawks #BostonCeltics #BrooklynNets #CharlotteHornets #ChicagoBulls #ClevelandCavaliers #DetroitPistons #IndianaPacers #MiamiHeat #MilwaukeeBucks #NewYorkKnicks #OrlandoMagic #Philadelphia76ers #TorontoRaptors #WashingtonWizards #DallasMavericks #DenverNuggets #GoldenStateWarriors #HoustonRockets #LosAngelesClippers #LosAngelesLakers #MemphisGrizzlies #MinnesotaTimberwolves #NewOrleansPelicans #OklahomaCityThunder #PhoenixSuns #PortlandTrailBlazers #SacramentoKings #SanAntonioSpurs #UtahJazz

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another small boat off the Venezuelan coast, once again accusing the vessel of transporting drugs.#Venezuela #Conflict #War #America #USA #US #Strike #Attack #Drugboats #Drugs #Narcotics #Smuggling #Trafficking #Map #PacificOcean #CaribbeanSea #LatinAmerica #Mexico #CentralAmerica #Colombia

An elite military unit has seized power in Madagascar from President Andry Rajoelina, who was impeached by lawmakers and forced to flee the country following weeks of youth-led protests.#Africa #Madagascar #Military #PresidentAndryRajoelina @AndryRajoelina #ColMichaelRandrianirina @MichaelRandrianirina #CAPSAT #Armyunit #Democraticy #Dictatorship #France #GenZprotests #Mali #Guinea #Sudan #BurkinaFaso #Niger #Gabon

The 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches conclude in November, ahead of the play-offs taking place in March. A total of 25 nations have already sealed qualification, joining co-hosts United States, Mexico and Canada in the draw for next year’s showpiece, with 20 places still to be decided.#Sports #football #soccer #UEFA #FIFA #WorldCup #European #Africa #Asia #Oceania #SouthAmerica #NorthAmerica #play-offs #UnitedStates #Mexico #Canada

U.S. President Donald Trump has warned that he may offer long-range Tomahawk missiles that could be used by Kyiv if Russia does not end the war in Ukraine.#Conflict #War #Europe #Russia #Ukraine #Tomahawkcruisemissile #EuropeanRussia #WesternRussia #Map #Missileranges

Tensions between the U.S. and China reignite as President Donald Trump vows steep new tariffs in retaliation for Beijing’s renewed restrictions on critical mineral exports.#world #globe #Earth #U.S. #USA #US #America # #China #PresidentDonaldTrump #PresidentXiJinping @DonaldTrump @XiJinping #Tariffs #Mineralexports #Commerce #Rareearthelements #Chineseimports #Holmium #Erbium #Thulium #Europium #Ytterbium

Repeated incursions by Russian drones have forced the EU to approve a “drone wall” – a Europe-wide, integrated, multi-layered system for detecting and intercepting cheap-to-build drones – just months after rejecting a budget for the proposal.#Aviation #aircraft #airlines #conflict #war #world #map #drones #Interceptordrone #ProjectOCTOPUS #UAV #UAS #Acousticsensor #passiveradar #3dradar #electroniccounter-measures #ECM #Directedenergyweapons #Microwave #RapidDestroyer #Skyranger #Patriotmissile #Hybridattacks #Europe #EuropeanUnion #Denmark #Dronestrikes #Europe #Airspaceviolations #NATO #Moscow #Ukraine #Poland #Estonia #Norway #Romania #Sweden #Dronewall @NATO @EasternSentry @TheEuropeanUnion

The 76th Formula One World Championship continues with R19 taking place at the Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas. The United States hosts the fourth sprint race of the season -- ahead of two further 100km events in Brazil and Qatar -- with eight points avaliable for victory, the contests are poised to affect the title race.#Sport #Motorracing #Motorsport #Autosport #FormulaOne #F1 #GP #GrandPrix #Profile #F1START26 #F1CIRCUITS25 #CircuitoftheAmericas #Austin #Texas #MaxVerstappen

Hamas has released all 20 living Israeli hostages, a crucial step in ending the two-year war in Gaza, as part of a ceasefire deal brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump.#MiddleEast #Mideast #Israel #Israeli #Palestinians #Hamas #Hostages #Ceasefire #Deal #Conflict #War

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on how technology drives growth, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has said.#CurrentAffairs #Science #Technology #NobelPrize #medal #SWE #Sweden #Norway #PhysiologyorMedicine #Physics #Chemistry #Literature #Peace #EconomicSciences #Economy #

Cameroon’s Paul Biya, who is the world’s oldest leader at the age of 92, has been president of the Central African nation for 43 years.#Cameroon #PaulBiya #OldestWorldLeader #Election #Iceland #KristrúnFrostadóttir

Bird populations are declining faster than previously thought and Arctic seals are edging closer to extinction – but the recovery of green turtles “reminds us that conservation works”, a new global assessment shows.#Environment #Conservation #Animals #Plants #Mammals #Birds #Fish #Reptiles #Insects #Criticallyendangered #Endangered #Vulnerable #Environment #Conservation #InternationalUnionforConservationofNature #IUCN #GreenSeaTurtle #Schlegel’sasity #Hoodedseal #Beardedseal #Harpseal #UNclimatesummit #Belem #UNClimateChangeConference #COP30

At the same time as supplying arms and aid to Ukraine, the European Union continues to buy oil and gas from Russia, pumping over €200 billion into Moscow’s war chest since the invasion of Ukraine.#EuropeanUnion #Russia #energy #economics #profit #tax #embargo #tariffs #aggregatedemand #energycrisis #EU-wideembargo #ban #crudeoil #LNG #Russia #imports.

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s main opposition leader, for “keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness”.#CurrentAffairs #Science #Technology #NobelPrize #medal #SWE #Sweden #Norway #PhysiologyorMedicine #Physics #Chemistry #Literature #Peace #EconomicSciences #Economy #MariaCorinaMachado @MariaCorinaMachado

A new study published in The Lancet shows a clear link between Israeli aid restrictions in Gaza and 54,600 pre-school-aged children estimated to be acutely malnourished.#Gaza #Israel #War #IsraelGazaWar #peace #peacedeal #DonaldTrump #PresidentTrump #UnitedNations #UN @UN @UNRWA #food #starvation #malnutrition #famine #aid #blockade #warcrimes #politics

The United Nations is to cut a quarter of peacekeepers in nine operations around the world due to funding insecurities -- as President Trump continues to cast doubt on future U.S. contributions.#MiddleEast #Mideast #UnitedNations #UN #UnitedStates

Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art,” the Nobel Committee announced today.#CurrentAffairs #Science #Technology #NobelPrize #medal #SWE #Sweden #Norway #PhysiologyorMedicine #Physics #Chemistry #Literature #Peace #EconomicSciences #Economy #LászlóKrasznahorkai @LászlóKrasznahorkai #LaszloKrasznahorkai @LaszloKrasznahorkai @Krasznahorkai

Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of U.S. President Trump’s plan for Gaza, a deal that could be a first step towards ending the two-year-old war that has shaken the Middle East.#Conflict #War #MiddleEast #Mideast #Israel #Israeli #Hamas #Israel-Hamas #Gaza #GazaStrip #Palestinian #Palestine #Palestinians #Peace #Deal #Talks #Negotiations #Egypt #Map #Initialwithdrawal #Phased #Staged #Lines

Tech firms face a bill likely to run into trillions of dollars on advanced microchips and data centres or risk falling behind their competitors – but the risk of getting caught in a bubble is growing#Artificialintelligence #Investment #BigTech #Amazon #Meta #Alphabet #Google #Microsoft #Oracle #Datacenters #Datacentres #Android #Robot #MagnificentSeven